Charles Lucas de Pesloüan — Amicitiae in hortis

Paris, Société Littéraire de France, COPY NUMBER ONE, ONE OF ONLY 25 LARGE-PAPER COPIES OF THE AUTHOR'S FIRST LITERARY WORK, SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR. VII, 341 pp. An anonymously-published collection of love poems by Pesloüan (1878-1952), an engineer and close friend (and editor) of Charles Péguy who went on to produce several more literary works. In this collection, the main themes are frustrated love and the deaths of Pesloüan's close friends in World War I. THIS IS COPY NUMBER ONE, one of only 25 numbered large-paper copies printed on fine Rives wove paper. SIGNED BY PESLOÜAN on a preliminary blank. 8vo. UNCUT AND UNOPENED IN ORIGINAL WRAPS. Wraps a little dusty, else FINE AND BRIGHT, A PRISTINE COPY.